Chapter Summaries

Li Yun traded the Divine White Jade Plate to Yuan Jue for a Heavenblaze Immortal Sword Grass, then declined Four Directions Guest’s remaining auction items. Yuan Jue offered to show Li Yun another warehouse, and Li Yun agreed to go with him.

• Li Yun offered Yuan Jue a Heavenblaze Immortal Sword Grass in exchange for the Divine White Jade Plate, which Yuan Jue eagerly accepted.
• Li Yun examined the other auction items but found none worth trading for, including Four Directions Guest’s Earth Grade High Divine Ability scroll.
• Li Yun told Yuan Jue he would share his contact information and might return if Four Directions Guest acquired more rare items.
• Yuan Jue invited Li Yun to inspect another warehouse filled with strange items the elders could not identify, and Li Yun agreed.

Supreme Mountain’s Xu Si led a force to attack Four Directions Guest, accusing it of secretly interfering in a dynastic struggle. A captured lookout revealed the Marketplace’s escape routes and defenses, forcing Xu Si to reconsider his assault.

• Supreme Mountain’s arrival in Sparrow Emperor County alarmed the locals, who feared Four Directions Guest would suffer the same fate as the Sparrow Emperor Clan.
• Xu Si explained that Supreme Mountain tolerated unreported Marketplaces if they paid taxes but would destroy Four Directions Guest for interfering in dynastic affairs.
• Xu Si ordered his men to storm Four Directions Guest, where they killed one lookout and seized another.
• The surviving lookout warned Xu Si that the Marketplace had three escape routes, rehearsed evacuation plans, and hidden formations capable of trapping Divine Martial Realm powerhouses.
• Xu Si angrily demanded to know why his subordinates had failed to investigate the defenses.

Xu Si’s Supreme Mountain group tried to reach Four Directions Guest’s Marketplace, but Yu Feng’s information revealed their tavern was a decoy and their arrival had already exposed the raid. As alarms sounded, Yuan Jue evacuated the warehouse, while Li Yun and the others escaped through a hidden passage into the woods outside Sparrow Emperor County.

• Xu Si promised Yu Feng an Inner Sect Disciple position in exchange for help, and Yu Feng explained that the tavern lift was trapped and the Marketplace could only be reached through a hidden passage at Mingtong Inn.
• After learning that the Mingtong Inn route was three li away, Xu Si realized Four Directions Guest had used the tavern as a decoy and killed Yu Feng in anger.
• Four Directions Guest scouts alerted Mingtong Inn when Xu Si’s group attacked the tavern, and the innkeeper hurried through the hidden passage to warn the Marketplace.
• As the VIP auction began, alarms sounded, and Yuan Jue gathered the warehouse goods into a sack and showed Li Yun and the others a hidden exit.
• Li Yun gave Yuan Jue a Message Talisman and left with the Cloud Cliff Saintess and their companion, emerging in the woods west of Sparrow Emperor County before deciding to return and investigate.

Li Yun unleashed a mysterious Mystic Gate against Xu Si’s men in Sparrow Emperor County, killing or swallowing four Dao Seed Realm experts and forcing Xu Si to flee. The survivors discovered they could not remember what the gate looked like and hurried back to Supreme Mountain to report the terrifying encounter.

• Li Yun spotted Xu Si’s subordinates searching Sparrow Emperor County and secretly sent out a streak of light.
• Two of Xu Si’s subordinates threatened to kill everyone at Mingtong Inn unless Four Directions Guest came out, then attacked when the ten breaths ended.
• A mysterious Mystic Gate appeared, swallowed the two men and their fire dragons, then killed another subordinate and swallowed a fourth who attacked it.
• Xu Si saw the Mystic Gate, ordered his remaining subordinates to flee, and escaped Sparrow Emperor County with them.
• After traveling three thousand miles, Xu Si and his subordinates realized they could no longer remember the Mystic Gate’s appearance and decided to report back to Supreme Mountain.

Xu Si returned to Supreme Mountain after his mission against the Four Directions Guest failed, but Guan Feng dismissed his account of a mysterious gateway and punished him and his men. Zheng Guanxi heard the story and suspected the gateway was connected to the Primordial Sparrow Emperor, whose bloodline curse threatened him.

• Xu Si told Guan Feng that a mysterious gateway had swallowed three Dao Seed Realm cultivators and killed another, but the witnesses could not remember seeing it.
• Guan Feng accused Xu Si of inventing an excuse, then sent him and his subordinates to confinement for three years after learning they had mishandled the mission.
• The failed mission became a joke throughout Supreme Mountain, and Xu Si fumed in the Dungeon.
• Zheng Guanxi recalled abducting and slaughtering members of the Que Family, an act that had triggered a bloodline curse tied to the Primordial Sparrow Emperor.
• Zheng Guanxi grew vigilant and suspected the mysterious gateway in Sparrow Emperor County was connected to the Sparrow Emperor.

Zheng Guanxi consulted Lamp Daoist about the mysterious gateway in Sparrow Emperor County and was sent to investigate whether it was a supreme treasure. As Zheng Guanxi and his confidants secretly set out, powerful figures from across the region were already converging on Sparrow Emperor County.

• Zheng Guanxi asked Lamp Daoist whether the mysterious gateway was connected to the Sparrow Emperor, and Lamp Daoist said the reports were partly credible but its nature remained unknown.
• Lamp Daoist proposed that the gateway might be the work of a powerhouse beyond the Nine Heavens Reaching Realms or a supreme treasure.
• Zheng Guanxi promised to investigate the gateway and seize it for Lamp Daoist if it proved to be a treasure.
• Lamp Daoist gave Zheng Guanxi a Lamplight Talisman that could help him escape danger, and warned him that other powerful figures would travel to Sparrow Emperor County.
• Zheng Guanxi summoned trusted confidants and left Supreme Mountain under cover of night as experts from across the region gathered at the former Que Family residence.

Li Yun stayed in Sparrow Emperor County after rumors of his Mystic Gate drew nearly a thousand powerful cultivators, hoping the Zheng Clan elder Zheng Guanxi would come there. He used the Divine White Jade Plate’s Human Immortal Origin to nourish the Dao Seeds inside his Mystic Gate, while plotting to take more Earth Immortal Origin from Jin Wushuang.

• A burly man questioned a Martial Artist in Sparrow Emperor County about the mysterious gate, but the man claimed he remembered nothing.
• Li Yun observed the influx of experts and discussed with the Cloud Cliff Saintess that Zheng Guanxi might arrive in the county; she said Supreme Mountain’s people were keeping a low profile.
• Li Yun found that the three Supreme Mountain cultivators he had swallowed had become nourishment for the more than one thousand Dao Seeds inside his Mystic Gate, but they had produced no noticeable growth.
• Li Yun used the Divine White Jade Plate, which contained Human Immortal Origin, to accelerate the growth of the Dao Seeds after gaining 287 points of Human Immortal Level Cognition from it.
• Li Yun considered slashing Jin Wushuang again to obtain more Earth Immortal Origin, and Jin Wushuang sneezed while recovering in the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty, suspecting Yun Shuiyao was plotting against him.

Li Yun met Que Feihong, the chief manager of Four Directions Guest and a descendant of the Sparrow Emperor, and revealed he possessed the Sparrow Emperor's Legacy. After explaining why he had come to Sparrow Emperor County, Li Yun returned the legacy to Que Feihong, leaving him stunned.

• A hidden consciousness inside the Divine White Jade Plate sensed Li Yun refining it and planned to use its Immortal Origin to taint his Dao and consume his divine soul.
• Yuan Jue found Li Yun at a tavern and invited him to meet Four Directions Guest's chief manager at a discreet house.
• Li Yun recognized that the green-robed Fei Hong was a descendant of the Sparrow Emperor and identified his true name as Que Feihong.
• Que Feihong was shocked when Li Yun explained that he carried the Sparrow Emperor's Legacy and had come to return it to the Sparrow Emperor's descendants.
• Li Yun handed Que Feihong the Jade Slip containing the Sparrow Emperor's Legacy, and Que Feihong stood stunned as Li Yun felt a weight lift from him.

Li Yun returned the Sparrow Emperor's Legacy to Que Feihong, who revealed his long-hidden efforts to unite the Southern Land's dynasties against Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace. Li Yun took interest in Que Feihong's plan but questioned whether he could withstand the fortune it would gather.

• Que Feihong questioned why Li Yun was returning the Sparrow Emperor's Legacy, and Li Yun explained that he was settling his karma and offered to leave if Que had doubts.
• Que Feihong recognized Li Yun as a powerful ally and offered him anything he wanted from Four Directions Guest, then admitted he remembered fragments of the mysterious gate's appearance.
• Yun Shuiyao deduced that Que Feihong possessed an Immortal Artifact that defended his Divine Soul, and Que confirmed it.
• Que Feihong explained that he had awakened after the Que Family's bloodline curse stirred, then secretly built Four Directions Guest and funded dynasties to oppose Supreme Mountain's divide-and-rule strategy.
• Que Feihong said he hoped to unite the Southern Land's dynasties and gather enough fortune to threaten Supreme Mountain, and Li Yun asked how he would bear that fortune.

Li Yun warned Que Feihong that gathering the Southern Land’s fortune would not threaten Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace without a vessel capable of containing it, then learned Que Feihong knew where Flame Mountain was. Que Feihong proposed building a new holy land there, and Li Yun asked him to take him to Flame Mountain.

• Li Yun explained that Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace suppressed its holy land fortune and warned that plundering it would provoke the World Will and invite a deadly backlash.
• Li Yun realized Que Feihong’s mention of Flame Mountain connected to a hint from the Divine Tree and his search for the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root.
• Que Feihong revealed that he knew Flame Mountain’s whereabouts and proposed gathering the Southern Land’s dynastic fortune there to establish another holy land.
• Li Yun doubted Que Feihong could control Flame Mountain, comparing him unfavorably with Primordial White Emperor, who had failed to control Tiangu King Mountain.
• Li Yun asked Que Feihong to take him to Flame Mountain, and Que Feihong realized that Li Yun had been waiting for this opportunity.

Que Feihong led Li Yun and the others to the desert where Flame Mountain was hidden. Li Yun used Tiangu King Mountain to reveal Flame Mountain’s gate, and the group entered before an arriving elder could investigate.

• Que Feihong left Yuan Jue behind to watch Sparrow Emperor County and led Li Yun, Cloud Cliff Saintess, and Yun Shuiyao toward the Peacock Dynasty.
• Li Yun sensed a resonance between Tiangu King Mountain and Flame Mountain in the desert north of the dynasty.
• Li Yun released Tiangu King Mountain’s aura, causing flames to rise and Flame Mountain’s gate to appear.
• Que Feihong learned from Cloud Cliff Saintess that Li Yun could communicate with Flame Mountain because he controlled Tiangu King Mountain.
• Li Yun, Cloud Cliff Saintess, Yun Shuiyao, and Que Feihong passed through the gate, which vanished behind them.
• An aged figure arrived in the desert, sensed a trace of Flame Mountain, and decided to contact Elder Yan.

Li Yun devoured Flame Mountain’s fire essence, advancing his fire Dao Seed into a Dao Embryo and drawing Flame Mountain’s attention. As the Divine White Jade Plate was refined, he gained a Lunar Dao Seed and sensed a hidden will inside the plate that wanted to possess him.

• Li Yun entered Flame Mountain with Que Feihong and two others, then released his Mysterious Gate Dao Seed to absorb its Fire Element Essence and Spirit Fire.
• Li Yun’s fire Dao Seed rose beyond Dao Seed Level Nineteen and transformed into a Dao Embryo as Flame Mountain resonated with him.
• Que Feihong recognized Li Yun as a king of the fire path and wondered whether he could also become Flame Mountain’s Lord.
• The Mysterious Gate Dao Seed refined the Divine White Jade Plate faster, strengthening its other Dao Seeds and creating a Lunar Great Dao River and Lunar Dao Seed.
• Li Yun sensed a hidden will within the Divine White Jade Plate that wanted to possess his body and decided to wait for it to reveal itself.

Li Yun received the Flame Phoenix’s Origin Fire, which perfected his Myriad Treasures Divine Body and transformed him into a Flame Divine Body. After his body shattered and reformed in the flames, Yun Shuiyao recognized him as an Innate Flame Spirit.

• Li Yun’s Fire Dao embryo advanced to the ninth level as he refined Flame Element Essence within Flame Mountain.
• A Flame Phoenix appeared, revealed an Immortal Art called Heaven and Earth Fire, and sent Origin Fire into Li Yun.
• The Origin Fire perfected Li Yun’s Myriad Treasures Divine Body and transformed his physique into a Flame Divine Body, though he hesitated to open Flame Worlds within his cells because he feared suppressing his other physiques.
• The Flame Phoenix sent more Fire Element Essence into Li Yun, causing his body to shatter and then reform with every cell transformed into a crystalline flame.
• Que Feihong, the Cloud Cliff Saintess, and Yun Shuiyao watched in shock as Yun Shuiyao recognized Li Yun as an Innate Flame Spirit.

Yun Shuiyao recognized Li Yun’s transformation as an imperfect Innate Flame Spirit, a legendary fire Ancient Clan constitution that could command the Fire Dao. After Li Yun learned he needed vast fire resources to strengthen it, Flame Mountain shrank into a phoenix, merged into his Destiny River, and began steadily nourishing his cells.

• Yun Shuiyao told Que Feihong and Cloud Cliff Saintess that an Innate Flame Spirit resembled a member of the vanished Ancient Clan of fire, born able to command the Dao and destined to reach Immortal Sovereign.
• Li Yun examined his System Panel and discovered that his constitution had become an Innate Flame Divinity, leaving him confused about his transformation and new command over fire.
• Li Yun learned that his Innate Flame Spirit lacked the foundation to become a Human Immortal without refining immense amounts of fire-related essence and treasures.
• The Flame Mountain Will dispersed, and the entire Flame Mountain shrank into a fire phoenix that flew into Li Yun’s body and entered his Destiny River.
• Li Yun’s Destiny River spread into his Cell Crystals as Flame Mountain coiled within him and steadily released Fire Element Essence for absorption.

Li Yun emerged from the destroyed Flame Mountain world with his companions, having absorbed its remaining fire essence and advanced his Fire Dao. They encountered Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace experts, and a clash with Elder Yan began when Yun Shuiyao broke his attack on Que Feihong.

• Li Yun absorbed the Flame Mountain world’s remaining fire essence, raised his Fire Dao to the tenth level of the Dao Embryo, and shattered the collapsing space to escape with his group.
• Li Yun saw the desert begin recovering after Flame Mountain vanished and prepared to leave with Que Feihong and their companions.
• Cang Jiulin arrived with Elder Yan and other Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace experts, then attacked Li Yun’s group after Li Yun rebuffed his demand for an explanation.
• Que Feihong countered Cang Jiulin with the Nanming Shocking Fist, but Elder Yan blocked the attack and trapped Que Feihong beneath a Fire Lotus.
• Yun Shuiyao used the Sea of Wills Power to shatter Elder Yan’s Fire Lotus and save Que Feihong.

Yun Shuiyao let Li Yun test his transformed power against the Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace experts. Cang Jiulin attacked Li Yun with True Nether Fire, hoping to devour and refine him, but Li Yun’s Fire Lotus had already swallowed his earlier divine ability.

• Elder Yan recognized Yun Shuiyao’s rare Dao of Wishes and considered seizing her cultivation method, but she dismissed him and asked Li Yun if he wanted to test his strength.
• Li Yun accepted Yun Shuiyao’s offer and challenged the Supreme Mountain experts to fight him.
• Cang Jiulin rushed at Li Yun with Nine Refinements of the Heavens, and Li Yun transformed into countless Cell Crystals that formed a thirty-six-petaled Fire Lotus and swallowed the attack’s nine azure flames.
• A Dao Evolution Realm expert warned Cang Jiulin to use his Cave Void Rule against Li Yun’s Devouring Art while moving to keep Que Feihong and the Cloud Cliff Saintess from interfering.
• Cang Jiulin unleashed his True Nether Fire to refine Li Yun, sensing a pure Fire Dao aura and deciding that devouring Li Yun could improve his Cave Void Origin by at least thirty percent.

Li Yun invoked the Supreme Will of Fire Dao to overpower and devour Cang Jiulin, revealing a power that terrified the martial artists of Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace. Elder Yan ordered his forces to kill Li Yun and attacked Yun Shuiyao to keep her from protecting him.

• Li Yun used the thirty-six-petaled Fire Lotus and the Throne of the Fire King to crush Cang Jiulin’s Divine Ability domain and Cave Void Rule.
• Elder Yan recognized the Supreme Will of Fire Dao and prepared to attack the Void Throne, but Yun Shuiyao threatened to intervene.
• Li Yun’s Fire Lotus devoured Cang Jiulin and his Origin True Nether Fire, breaking them down into energy that nourished Li Yun’s Cell Crystals.
• Li Yun emerged with a terrifying aura, and Elder Yan and his subordinates feared that he would devour them next.
• Elder Yan ordered his Dao Evolution Realm subordinates to attack Li Yun while he attacked Yun Shuiyao and trapped Que Feihong and the Cloud Cliff Saintess in his Martial Domain.

Li Yun used the Supreme Will of the Fire Dao to suppress the Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace cultivators, then killed and devoured one of their Dao Evolution Realm experts. His fleshly cultivation advanced to the Flesh Void Comprehension Second Stage, and Elder Yan fled as the remaining attackers tried to escape.

• Li Yun summoned the Fire Dao Great Dao’s Supreme Will, shattering the attackers’ combined assault and suppressing their strength.
• Li Yun used the Primordial Golden Lightning Art to hold off the Dao Evolution Realm experts while he battered one of them with his fists.
• Li Yun destroyed the expert’s Cave Void Miniature World and devoured his Martial Dao Origin and Fire Element Essence.
• Li Yun’s fleshly cultivation advanced to the Flesh Void Comprehension Second Stage.
• Elder Yan ordered the survivors to flee, broke free from Yun Shuiyao, and escaped.

Li Yun killed and devoured seven captured Dao Evolution Realm experts from Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace after Elder Yan escaped with six survivors. At Supreme Mountain, Nan Mingtian discovered that the sect's fortune had weakened, revealing a threat to its foundations.

• Yun Shuiyao, Que Feihong, Bai Fantian, and Li Yun stopped seven of the fleeing Dao Evolution Realm experts while Elder Yan escaped with six others.
• Li Yun blasted apart and devoured the seven captured experts, declaring that Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace had become his enemy.
• Elder Yan rushed to Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace and warned Palace Master Nan Mingtian that a terrifying enemy had killed eight Dao Evolution Realm experts and one Void Comprehension Realm expert.
• Nan Mingtian sensed Supreme Mountain tremble and investigated the sect's Fortune Sea, finding that its Fortune Golden Lotus had shaken and its fortune had decreased.
• Nan Mingtian realized someone had intercepted the fortune of slain Li Huo Palace members despite the Fortune Golden Lotus, and he feared the sect's foundations were in danger.

Nan Mingtian and the Integration Realm elders of Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace learned that Li Yun’s group had caused the sacred land’s fortune to drain away, and Yan Qianchong’s account of the desert battle failed to conceal his role. After recognizing Li Yun as a threat to their power and their search for Flame Mountain, Nan Mingtian ordered them to eliminate him.

• Nan Mingtian traced the lost fortune to the deaths of Cang Jiulin, Hun Jiu, and Yan Baicang, then confronted Yan Qianchong.
• More than twenty Integration Realm elders arrived and demanded an explanation for the disturbance in Supreme Mountain Li Huo Palace’s fortune.
• Yan Qianchong recounted the battle in the Peacock Dynasty desert but blamed Li Yun’s group and hid that he had provoked them.
• Nan Mingtian and the other elders rejected Yan Qianchong’s account, while Lamp Daoist accused him of trying to claim Flame Mountain for himself.
• Nan Mingtian acknowledged that Li Yun could wield Supreme Will of Fire Dao and intercept their fortune, then ordered the elders to strike and eliminate the threat.